Synth-Pop
Premiere: Find Ghost Love and stream the new album from the Montreal trio early
With the amount of music released every week, it’s a guarantee that a bunch of records are going to fly under the radar, but the new one from Ghost Love definitely shouldn’t. The Montreal trio have been quiet for a little bit, recently resurfacing to share the lead single (title track ‘Mourners Disco) and its …
Premiere: Kid Francescoli kicks off a busy 2023 with ‘You Are Everywhere’
You’re gonna hear a lot about him this year so we’d recommend you get familiar with Mathieu Hocine, AKA Kid Francescoli. He’s been at work on the follow-up to 2020’s Lovers, with a brief detour into score and soundtrack territory for last year’s Azuro, and while not ready to reveal it just yet, the Marseille-based …
Gallery & Set List: Tove Lo / Miya Folick, Dirt Femme Tour – 3Olympia, Dublin 29.10.2022
Tove Lo’s Dirt Femme Tour kicked off with an opening date at Dublin’s 3Olympia and in support slot was American singer-songwriter Miya Folick with full band. Miya and band played for 40 minutes and got a fantastic reaction for the sold out crowd. Its a pity the stage was so crowded with instruments to fit …
Album Review : Síntesis Moderna – An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music 1980-1990 : a ‘must have’ compilation.
Knowledgeable compilers, significant context and cracking music – these are the key components of a ‘must-have’ rather than ‘may be’ collection. Fresh onto those discerning record store racks, Síntesis Moderna: An Alternative Vision Of Argentinean Music 1980-1990 (available on Soundway Records) ticks off all these criteria without any squabbling: diligently curated by people in the …
PREMIERE: Amiture rework album highlight ‘Thaw’, share video
Sometimes you’ve just got to gut one of the best songs on your album and completely rework it. Amiture seem to subscribe to that line of thinking, at least. Last year, with Jack Whitescarver as the sole member, the project released its debut album The Beach. ‘Thaw’ originally appeared on that album, but the version …
PREMIERE: Endearments survey breakup wreckage on huge new single ‘Too Late’
You’d do well to get on board with Brooklyn trio Endearments at this early stage of their career. They tapped Abe Seiferth to mix the song we’re premiering today. He’s worked with Nation of Language so knows a thing or two about the up-and-comers when it comes to Brooklyn synth-pop. ‘Too Late’ is the band’s …
Premiere: Carolyn Hunter reveals the shimmering beauty of Hardest Part
We’re delighted to premiere the new single from folk-pop singer-sonwriter Carolyn Hunter, Hardest Park. It the first new music from Carolyn since her synth-pop album Lovelight dropped in December of last year, and reminisces on the period of time between the first kiss and the ending of a relationship. Of the single, Carolyn told us …
PREMIERE: Blonde Diamond dazzle on brilliant new single ‘Strange Times’, prep debut album
It would be fair to say that Vancouver quartet Blonde Diamond have been in album mode for a while now. It’s the reason they all but vanished for two years before resurfacing a few months ago with the intense ‘Red Flags’. As the first we heard from them since 2018, it was the sound of …
Meet: Beautiful Machines on new single Control, their forthcoming album, and recording during a pandemic
After hearing the dark, yet beautiful, synth-pop of their single Control, out now via Republic of Music, we knew we wanted to try and track down its creators, duo Beautiful Machines. With an album to follow, theres a sense of the dystopian, and a journey, inspired as it is by Fritz Lang’s ‘Metropolis’. With the …
News: Tears For Fears announce North American leg of The Tipping Point world tour 2022
Legendary UK synth-pop duo Tears for Fears have announced the North American leg of their Tipping Point World Tour in 2022, with Garbage in support. Kicking off in Cincinnati, OH on May 20th, the tour will see the band performing in over twenty cities across North America before capping off with their last show in Wantagh, …